Please reach out if interested and let me know more, let's see if there's a possible deal here. :-)

codewhisperer at team803585.testinator.email (replace the " at ")

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"Off to Be the Wizard" by Scott Meyer

"Daemon" by Daniel Suarez

"The Adolescence of P1" (vintage) by Thomas Ryan

"Snow Crash" by William Gibson

"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline

"We are Legion [We are Bob]" by Dennis Taylor

Some quick comments:

1) Under the tools listing on the home page, I'd make the entire block of each tool (name, icon, description) the clickable link, not just the words "Use Tool"

2) When in dark mode (which was auto-sensed, good job), every time I choose a new page it starts in light mode (flash-bang!) and then fades into dark mode.

Since you asked for feedback, here's something I noticed. I initially opened this on my tablet, and some of the H2 headlines had orphan words. Like this:

Understanding HTTP Status Codes When Websites Are

Down

I'd recommend maybe adding "text-wrap: pretty;" to those, or using other tricks (like maybe making the max width for headlines 80% or similar). Note that text-wrap pretty is still somewhat new (caniuse.com reports 72.9% support).

Other minor things (NOT criticisms, just trying to be helpful):

- It looks like your Google analytics and tag manager are not loading due to your content security policy (script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline')

- Your site weight is already impressively small (congrats!) but you may still want to consider compressing the CSS and JS to make it as quick as possible.

- In the bottom area (common sites), I saw that the comma after Zoom (for example) sometimes appeared on the line below (another place where text-wrap: pretty; might help)

- On the "About Us" page I could not read the subtitle ("The story behind...") due to the colors in use (looks like grey on green?). Same thing for Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

- I expected the form at the top to submit when I hit the 'enter' key, but I had to click the button. I'd recommend making it submit on enter, especially since it has only one field.

- I kept trying to check one of my own sites (picnits.com) and was told it was down, even though it's not (to be completely fair, it could be that my server is blocking something in your request, like user-agent or IP/origin, so that might not be an actual issue on your side)

Hope this helps!

Then depending on the registrar, there may be features that help to facilitate this type of management. Porkbun, for example, has "subaccounts" and also "authorized users" where you can then set yourself up to be able to admin those domains on behalf of your client. Godaddy, as another example, has a feature called "Delegate Access", where you can set yourself up under your client's account to be able to make changes, perform renewals, etc. on their behalf.

I would imagine that other registrars might have similar features.

This is not a criticism, but rather intended as (hopefully) constructive feedback.

As a technical dev who just doesn't have the time to spend on my own projects, I have general questions about your services. However, from the site it appears that the only way I can communicate with you is to schedule a phone call.

I understand why you might want that initial contact to be via a phone call, but for me a scheduled call is just too much friction when I just want to fire off an email or a chat to ask a couple of questions and see if we might be a good fit.

That may sound silly, but I suspect I am not alone.

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"Chocky" by John Wyndham

"This is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (a new all-time fave for me)

"The Book of Strange new Things: A Novel" by Michel Faber

"The City and the City" by China Miéville

"The Fifth Science" by Exurb1a

"The Initial Fold" series by Nick Adams

"Peacemaker's Code" by Deepak Malhotra (still not sure why this is not more well-known)

"Eifelheim" by Michael Flynn (a most unusual premise and a gob of seemingly inane stuff to get through at about the 2/3 point, but IMHO worth it)

"Providence" by Max Barry (heart pounding)

"Hench" by Natalie Zina Walschots

"Orange World" by Karen Russell (short stories but many qualify as sci-fi, very memorable to me)

And here are some definitely well-known examples that also stick in my head:

"Infernum" by Jayson Adams

"The Fourth Wing" and "Iron Flame" by Rebecca Yarros (more fantasy than sci-fi, but very well done if you can handle two or three extended and explicit sex scenes)

"Rabbits" by Terry Miles (book includes some hidden hints and puzzles that lead you to things outside the book

"We are Legion (We are Bob)" series by Dennis Taylor

To be fair, it could have been an innocent mistake on the part of the person who signed up... maybe they meant to type .net instead of .com or something like that.

I contacted the vendor to tell them that the account is not authorized or known on my domain, and asked them to cancel, but they will not unless I send them an email using the 'from' address of the unauthorized account.

So, questions:

1) Is this a common thing? And if this is potentially illicit activity, what is this person thinking or hoping they'll be able to commit?

2) Even though I'd be using my own domain, should I intentionally impersonate someone who may (or may not) be attempting inappropriate activity in order to get the account removed? Wouldn't that - on its own - be a potentially dangerous or illegal act?

{sigh} modern problems.

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Flipper Zero

Raspberry PI

SDR

Not a computer, but still very relevant for inquisitive kids and adults:

Amateur radio (an oldie but a goodie)

Decent telescope

Decent microscope